Entertainment Movies Read Time : 1 Minutes SDCC ‘Twilight’s Stephenie Meyer Has Comic-Con Surprise For ‘The Host’ July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 Hoob The Host is Meyers’ first science fiction novel, and focuses on a parasitic alien soul injected into Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), one of the last human holdouts trying to resist the alien invasion.